For those who watch anime - the Alabasta arc of One Piece shows a SIMPLE tactic dictators use with peaceful protests & organizations. Seed the protesters with

For those who watch anime - the Alabasta arc of One Piece shows a SIMPLE tactic dictators use with peaceful protests & organizations. Seed the protesters with your own troublemakers who attack the police FIRST and then disappear when shit hits the fan. The police would have an excuse to use weapons against the protesters. China used this in the recent Honk Kong protests. US intelligent agencies also pulled this same trick against community organizations run by black people. See Fred Hampton's story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#Early_life_and_youth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#Early_life_and_yo... The nice part about this is that it's virtually impossible to prove without self confessions which typically happen decades after the event.